Pussy Riot
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Pussy Riot is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between August 04, 2023 and August 11, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “to speak up for Pussy Riot - and no one said a word to me”; “the majority of Russian citizens were not happy with the Pussy Riot actions”. It most often appears alongside Gessen, Masha Gessen, Putin.
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- Category: Organizations
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: August 04, 2023
- Last seen: August 11, 2023
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Related Pages
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- Gessen (2 shared issues)
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- Masha Gessen (2 shared issues)
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- Putin (2 shared issues)
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- Russia (2 shared issues)
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- Soviet Union (2 shared issues)
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- Stalin (2 shared issues)
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- 1993 Russian constitutional crisis (1 shared issues)
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- 2011 parliamentary election (1 shared issues)
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- 2011-2014 protests (1 shared issues)
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- 11 was an inside job (1 shared issues)
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- Aksenenko (1 shared issues)
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- Alexander Alexandrov (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Suddenly I seemed to be able to walk through walls: as a representative of RGS-affiliated Vokrug Sveta I was invited to state television and radio, where I had been blacklisted for years. I never went, but one of our editors used a live state-radio broadcast to speak up for Pussy Riot - and no one said a word to me. Did anyone even know? I put out feelers and soon found out that Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, who was working on the RGS/Volkov Sveta project most closely, had not known I was the magazine’s editor at the time the partnership was announced - by Putin himself. Peskov found out from a mutual acquaintance of ours several weeks later.
> a deliberately provocative punk band called Pussy Riot invaded a cathedral and sung a song whose chorus was “the Lord is shit”
For the culture wars: I think Putin uses it as a tool. Majority of Russians hardly believe in God, but find some kind of church desecration (and what Pussy Riot did would qualify in people's mind) to be disgusting. Thus, Pussy Riot action put the anti-Putin coalition in a kind of trap: on the one hand, their persecution was absolutely lawless (the corresponding penal code article is extremely broad in formulation, but is normally used to persecute people who aggresively brandish their weapons but don't attack anyone), but on the other hand, the majority of Russian citizens were not happy with the Pussy Riot actions. This allowed Putin to rebrand himself as a savior of the "traditional values" (whatever they are) and claim that the anti-Putin coalition wants to destroy them, getting over the general weariness of Russians with the ruling party (which could be noted from the 2011 parliamentary election: many of the regions where United Russia had bad performance do not have big cities in them).